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... LW: Validation study of WOMAC: a health status instrument for measuring clinically important patient relevant outcomes to antirheumatic drug therapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or ... manuscript CD designed and carried out the study planning, carried out data collection, participated in interpretation of data, and critically revised the manuscript TW participated in interpretation ... UK Authors’ contributions DD carried out analysis and interpretation of data, and prepared the manuscript SQ participated in analysis and interpretation of the data, and critically revised the...

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Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... initial studies to test whether processing of CF BAL affects sCD14 quantification These studies showed that filtration and centrifugation of CF BAL had no significant effect on sCD14 levels The ... pediatric asthmatic patients was the severity and chronicity of the asthmatic disease that prompted us to perform BAL for a more extensive diagnostic workup, in order to exclude non-asthmatic causes ... stable concomitant therapy at least weeks prior to the study Among all 39 CF patients, 17 patients were colonized with P aeruginosa and 19 patients with S aureus Twenty-five CF patients were ΔF508...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... epidemiology of and risk factors for virus-positive respiratory samples taken at the time of intubation in acutely ill patients, and to compare clinical outcome (survival and time to ventilated ... of antiviral therapy in this population Acknowledgements The authors want to thank the nursing staff of the Lemière and Babinsky units for their important contribution during the conduct of this ... address the role of antiviral therapy in this patient population Competing interests 10 11 12 13 14 The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions CD and SV wrote the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... be taken when attributing MRSA colonization to the community if detected in outpatients or during the first 24 to 48 hours of hospitalization The risk to patients in terms of transmission of ... co-trimoxazole, respectively This might be due to the fact that at present time these agents are tremendously used in the treatment of general infections On the contrary to the multiple resistance of MRSA, ... in the present study The results indicated that tetracycline resistance was transferred from clinical to carrier isolates This reflects that the use of antibiotics in humans to treat infections...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:20

... Middle East, threonine (rtN23 6T) mutants recently identified in patients with adefovir treatment Southern Europe, United In a study carried out in the United States, the precore variant of HBV was ... Asia, United States HBV, precore mutants, core promoter mutants, tyrosine-methionine-aspartateC Asia, United States aspartate (YMDD) mutants induced by lamivudine treatment, and asparagine to D India, ... therapy at the rate of 2.5% The mutation has been reported as asparagine to threonine mutation (rtN23 6T) , downstream of the YMDD motif It is not clear yet if rtN23 6T mutant can induce further liver...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... collects a sample from the patient and sends it to the culture and DST laboratory The culture and DST laboratory communicates the results to the district The district TB officer traces the patient ... TRANSMISSION OF DRUG- RESISTANT TB India’s Program Efforts to Prevent Transmission of Drug- Resistant TB, 37 The Impact of Treatment on MDR TB Transmission, 39 The Genetic Evolution of M.tb., 41 The Molecular ... on drug quality, quality enforcement, quality strategies, and accurate demand forecasting One of the most urgent needs is to obtain accurate data on the existence of totally drugresistant (TDR)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:20

... KAR, et al HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the epidemiology and clinical features of cases in a outbreak of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) Design: Descriptive ... hospitals of Bhubaneswar were sensitized and requested to refer all the suspected cases to the Department for clinical evaluation Sensitization was done through presentations about the case and importance ... collected from the suspected patients that included contact history in the family or neighbours Symptoms and signs were recorded in a structured format, after clinical examination Stool, urine and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... microenvironments at the primary tumor site, the invasive front and the metastatic site are different [21] Although no statistically significant result was showed regarding of the relationship of type IV ... indicates that the locations of infiltrating macrophages and MVD are accordant (Figure 2E and Figure 2F) One limitation of this study, however, is that it did not differentiate between M1 and M2 ... behavior of many individuals, and thus usually evokes Aristotle’s quote in that ‘The whole is more than the sum of its parts’ [12] Therefore, instead of investigating a single component of cancer matrix,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... significantly higher in the patients with distant metastasis than in those without distant metastasis, but in CRP, this was not proven We also noted a significant association between the levels of IL-6 ... direct correlation with the stage of the disease it may indirectly correlate with the prognosis of the patient unlike that of CRP Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a multi-poietic cytokine that induces the ... size and distant metastasis CRP also does not correlate with the overall survival of the patient It has been proved that TNM staging correlates with the prognosis of patients with breast cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... such patients, the latter being likely to be caused by drug- induced damage directed at the neutrophils that process the drug [6] The observation that DIV patients can also develop high levels of ... mostly because of lesser renal involvement Arthralgias and skin vasculitis are prominent features in these patients, and the clinical manifestations usually subside after withdrawal of the offending ... ANAs and anticardiolipin antibodies Hopefully, this diagnostic approach will lead to better recognition and cure of DIV in the future Competing interests 192 The author(s) declare that they have...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... must not only concentrate on this aspect of addiction when considering global treatments and preventative programs We must take into consideration that it is not purely the physiology of addiction ... addiction and the evolution of emotion Drugs distribution and use in ancient environments When examining the distribution of natural drugs in ancestral environment we see that there was often ... importance on things by demanding attention on either their strength (positive emotion) or their potential harm (negative emotion), then increasing the motivation to move towards an action to change,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... negative test at birth and a positive test more than days later indicate intrapartum transmission An infant is considered uninfected when two tests performed one month after discontinuation of ... variants resistant to both NRTI and NNRTI (child #10, Table 1) In all but one case, the neonates' drug resistance profiles were related to the antiretroviral drugs received by the mother and/ or ... information on maternal antiretroviral treatment and no maternal resistance genotyping were available in the latter studies The comparison of the maternal and neonatal drug resistance profiles pointed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... mutations, small deletions and insertions that lead to total or partial inactivation of the protein functions (Soong et al., 2000; Iacopetta et al., 2006) The inactivation of TP53 gene is postulated ... combination of other mutations that can reprogram the malignant state Eventually a tumour is initiated by mutations in the committed “cancer” daughter cells through an epithelial-mesenchymal transition ... stem-cell concept comes from the notion that current therapies are not effectively targeting such populations Polyak and Han (Polyak and Han, 2006) postulate that this is due to the fact that...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 20:57

... predict the natural course of infection or the onset of extrahepatic manifestations In untreated patients, the severity of liver inflammation and fibrosis must be evaluated every three to five ... detection at the end of therapy is highly predictive of a post-treatment relapse, whereas the absence of HCV RNA at the end of treatment indicates a virological response These patients must be ... sufficient number of patients, the likelihood of an SVR and the optimal treatment schedule remain unknown for the patients infected with HCV genotypes 4, or It is thus recommended to treat them like those...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... resulting tetrahydrofolate transfers into the 5,10-methyltetrahydrofolate with the enzyme 5,10-methyltetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and then into the 5methyltetrahydrofolate 5-MTHF, (Fodinger et al., ... balanced diet with optimal intake of B6 and B12 vitamins and folates it seems that the C67 7T mutation and the subsequent reduced activity of the enzyme MTHFR not connect with hyperhomocysteinemia ... must consider the multiple additive factors that contribute to the development of thromboembolism in neonates Also, the hemostatic system of neonates is significantly different from that of children...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20

... determine dosages and treatment strategies for individual patients Further it is the responsibility of the health care provider to ascertain the Food and Drug Administration status of each drug or device ... herbalists and physicians use different terminology, and the reason that most herbal medicine books are of little use to the physician confronted with a desperately ill patient, is that herbalists and ... accuracy of the information published and to describe generally accepted practices The contributors herein have carefully checked to ensure that the drug selections and dosages set forth in this text...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... (United States National Centre for Health Statistics), the drug- related mortality rate in the United States was 0.07 to 0.1 per cent of current drug abusers Relating the number of deaths to hard-core ... the magnitude of the problem from an economic perspective are the estimates of the turnover of the global illicit drug industry Due to the clandestine nature of the industry, its complexity and ... 1990s, the ratio of drug- related death to drug- injecting population, using the estimate of 200,000 deaths of IDUs, would be some 0.4 per cent.126 With official United States estimates of the size of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... size of cavities were not taken into account, although they might be related to the total bacterial load and symptom existence Retrospective design and mentioned these subjects are the limitations ... rifampin, ethambutol, and streptomycin The incidence of drug- induced hepatotoxicity in the study group was noted Patients were followed up either in the hospital or in the TB dispensary for treatment ... culture was used as the gold standard and positive in 70.7% of the study group The diagnostic method of TB was detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum on 1353 (56.3%) of patients,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... diagnostic tests with 100% sensitivity and specificity Latex intolerance The reality, of course, is often significantly removed from this ideal Patient recruitment is often the most difficult to standardize ... frequent use of latex gloves are also those where hand dermatitis is often encountered The dermatitis is often multifactorial in its causation Irritant dermatitis compounded by type IV contact allergies ... Note: In this model the specificity of an investigation has a disproportionate impact on the reliability of the outcome compared with the sensitivity Epidemiology of latex allergy studies of those...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20